London Vision Clinic and Ending Preventable Blindness: Nepal According to recent data, around 43 million people around the world are blind, with an additional 295 million people living with moderate-to-severe visual impairment. A staggering 77% of these cases are preventable or treatable. The leading cause of vision impairment and blindness is cataracts, closely followed by uncorrected refractive error. In many of these cases, simple interventions such as glasses or cataract surgery are all that is needed to correct an individuals…

